THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT & WORLD ECOLOGY Editor-in-Chief: Prof. John N. R. Jeffers Editorial Board Carl Folke, Stockholm, Sweden Bryn Green, Ashford, UK Francis Ng, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Jeffrey Sayer, Bogor, Indonesia Michael Young, Canberra, Australia Walter Leal Filho, Lüneburg, Germany John Cairns, Jr, Blacksburg, USA Brian Field, Luxembourg Jingzhu Zhao, Beijing, China Volume 14 Number 1 February 2007 Published Bi-monthly ISSN: 1350–4509